SPANISH resort Cala D'Or where Welsh father Garry Smith died of suspected food poisoning this summer came under more pressure to improve hygiene yesterday.

SPANISH resort Cala D'Or where Welsh father Garry Smith died of suspected food poisoning this summer came under more pressure to improve hygiene yesterday.

Ex-Swansea City star Paul Reid and his family flew home from the Majorcan resort last night after their holiday was ruined by a serious stomach bug.

The former Bury midfielder who is now a postman living in Killay, Swansea, had to rush his children Billy, seven, and Hannah, four, to hospital in Palma last Thursday.

The 35-year-old Birmingham-born player, now with Welsh League side Carmarthen Town, said yesterday. "They were on drips for days and fortunately appear well enough to travel home but it completely ruined our holiday.

"Other children in Cala D'Or have gone down with the bug too . . . it lays them low and they suffer stomach pains and diarrhoea."

Mr Reid flew to Majorca a week ago with his children and wife Siobhan.

Previously fit and healthy maintenance manager Garry Smith, 49, died days after falling ill following a restaurant meal in the Majorcan resort in June.

His widow Llinos, 39, of Cockett, Swansea, who is now bringing up the couple's two children Rhydian, eight, and seven-year-old Catrin, is still waiting for answers as to why he died.

Mr Smith, a diving instructor, was buried at St Peter's Church in Cockett last month.

The Western Mail discovered that a week before Mr Smith died, Liverpool couple Beryl and Ken Wilkins' son Elliot, six, became gravely ill at Cala D'Or with food poisoning.

And Carmarthenshire nurse Valerie Thomas described how she became gravely ill after eating in a Cala D'Or restaurant two years ago.

Several Welsh holidaymakers are among the 300 people considering suing for damages after claiming they contracted salmonella while visiting Club Aruamar in Cala de Majorca earlier this year.

Mr Reid, speaking from Majorca yesterday, said he could not fault the Spanish medical authorities who had treated his two children.

The 35-year-old, with his wife Siobhan, have been at their children's hospital bedside since last Thursday with temperatures of up to 38 C outside.

"As you can gather it has not been the best holiday we have ever had,'' he said. "It was shocking for us to see our children so ill . . . they just could not hold anything down even when they felt like eating.

"They had to be on drips for much of the time so they would not lose too many fluids.

"I honestly have no idea where they could have picked up the bug whether it was food or whether it was water in a swimming pool is very difficult to say.

"I know that many other children have gone down with the same thing. I'm very happy with the treatment we have had but obviously I am concerned that this happened in the first place.

"It's disturbing to hear the reports of illness suffered by other people in Cala D'or and maybe there should be some kind of investigation into hygiene standards here."

Yesterday, Swansea-based South West Wales AM Peter Black called for a Europe wide standard for hygiene in catering establishments.

A spokesman for the Spanish Embassy in London said yesterday, "The island of Majorca receives more than five million visitors a year.

"The vast majority have wonderful, relaxing holidays and hygiene practices in catering establishments are checked regularly."

The Foreign Office says it will investigate any complaints about hygiene standards in Majorca.